Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:30:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810161026380.3831-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981016124620.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): cros-device link > newfs: /mnt/dev/rda0s4a cant rewrite disk label. > > The disk is partitioned to have a 64MB DOS slice a 1GB FreeBSD > slice another 1GB freeBSD slice and a slightly over 2GB FreeBSD > slice. [..] > The (excessive) confirmations are an attempt to stem ``Oh, it soes not > happen here, must be the DPT driver'' comments. I belive it does not > happen elsewhere but is serious enough for us to post it here in search for > help. We are standing by to do what is needed to make it work. I can get IDE and SCSI disks to do the same thing; I'll go to work in an hour and repeat it on a 400MB IDE disk, I bet. Re-running 'commit' will work OK. I think newfs has issues. If you can get it to run outside of the install environment we can backtrace it. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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